In Germany, Günter Grass's The Tin Drum is one of the most highly-regarded novels of the post-World War II era and Volker Schlöndorff's film version of The Tin Drum is held in equal esteem. In America, The Tin Drum won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1979; however, today, the movie's fame is unfortunately tied to an infamous incident in Oklahoma where the police confiscated a videotape of the movie and a court subsequently banned it.